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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-15
THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE Cncinnatis are in desperate strait
for pitching talent.
NASHVILLE won twelve straight ere New
| Orleans checked her career.
SINCE the pitchers games have become
| fewer, drawn games are less frequent.
FIRST BAsEMAN MORRILL, is becoming the
chief home-run getter Of the Bostons.
| ALL the League clubs are more evenly
matched this year than they were last season.
PROFESSOR Swing, of Chicago, says that
baseball is the greatest outdoor sport in the
/ world"
CLARKsoN is themost effective pitcher the
| Detroits face. At least that's what the
| Wolverines say.
O'NEILL is leading the Association bats
| men, with Mcclellan, Foutz, Burns and Fen
| nelly close after.
| THE Southern League is in bad way, and
! is threatened with dissolution Mobile has
dropped out, and Birmingham been ad-
| mitted.
CHICAGO, Detroit, New York and Gin
cinnati have made bids for Fiau. the Dart
mouth College pitcher, who is doing such ef-
fective work for st. Paul.
HARRY PYLE. pitcher for the Chicago
| Club, who gave the Detroits ten runs III one
| inning was released, and was at once signed
| by the La Crosse Wis., Club.
The gross receipts of the National League
| Clubs last year amounted to not less than
! 1920, ,000 1t is estimated that the receipts Tor
! 1857 will amount to S40O,O ,OOO.
PHILADELPHIA has the most magnificent
| pavilion and ball park in the world. but De
| troit indisputably has the finest playing field.
| 1t is as level and smooth as table.
RIGHT FIELDERs haven't nearly as much
work as formerly. fewer flies being batted TO
| them under the new rules. Centre fieldels
| now have the bulk of the outside work.
GOOD pitchers are scarce in tine New Eng
land League. Whenever player in minor
league makes reputation in that respect the
| the larger organizations gobb.e him up.
THAT $4,000 investment in Kelly of the
| Chicagos was paying one for Boston. The
team is playing very strong game. and
drawing large crowds wherever they go.
The International League will now have
| two colored pitchers, as the Syracuse CLUB
has signed colored twirler named Robert
| Higgins, of Memphis, Tenn. He is said 10 be
@ wonderful left-handed man.
PITCHER JACK LYNCH. of the Metropoll-
| tans, says that the story about Phenomenal
| Smith being unable to pitch until the ball
had become rough from wear is true. He
says that this is one of the deep secrets OF
| pitching 1t is almost impossible to pitch
SHOotn Ddll, put "nei IL oecoHhe3 ShiPPeI
from coming in contact with the rough
| ground, it can be thrown and curved at will.
| An exchange says: 1T is not generally
| known, but it is nevertheless fact. that the
Detroit. New York, Cincinnati, Philadelphia
and st. Louis Clubs nave agents out all over
the country in quest of pitchers There is
one pitcher in the Northwestern League that
every one of the clubs is after. The New
Iorks have offered as high as 1920 for his
release, while Won der Abe, of st. Louis. has
authorized his agent to pay 500 more than
the best offer in order to secure his man."
THE NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD
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DEATH ON THE BAIL.
Six Passengers Killed and Othe
Injured.


Injured. "a
The other night, as the fast line west, vi
nearing Mttaning Point, Penn, the wheel
a car on freight train east burst and u
car crushed into two passenger coaches WI
terrible effect, killing Instantly four men az
injuring many others. kilograms were u
mediately sent to Altoona for physicians, az
all that could be procured were detailed
the wreck.
The killed were Dal Graham, son OF 6
Speaker Graham, Allegheny, Penn; j.
Stauffer, of Lewisville, Ohio; Wymer Sn
der, one-legged man, of Shamokin, Penn
John Doris, a newsboy of East Libert
Penn; Frank McCue. of IS East ThirtI
third street, New York City; Charles Beidl
man, of Brinfield, Noble County, Indiana.
The injured were: A. Agen, Fayetteviil
n. Y, head and side, not serious; Clara
bert, of Flint, Mich, slightly injured; Il
Rev. John Afford, of Beaver Falls, Penn
slight injuries: Hattie Luckett (coloredl,
Alexandria; Va, not seriously; the Rev.
n. Porter (colored), of Detroit.
Edith Geise, aged eleven years, travelH
with her mother, was Frustrated by q
shock, but was not injured to any exteI]
No passengers occupying sleeping or Para
cars were injured. The accident was q
worst that has happened for years on y
Pennsylvania Railroad. The injured wd
brought to Altoona and were made as COZ
Portable as possible.
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A newspaper printed at Dolores, Ar
gcntine Republic, which is situated near
the volcanic region, gives an account of a
mysterious shower of stones which fell
near that city few weeks ago. The
stones are said to have fallen as thick as
hail, and varied in size from a pebble to
a very respectable boulder. Incalcuable
damage was done to the crops, tall trees
were shivered to atoms, barns and out
houses were demolished and many
domestic animals were killed. In some
localities the ground was covered with
the bodies of wild geese and hawks,
which appeared to have been killed dur
ing their fight in the air. Several per-
sons were struck and badly injured while
at work in the fields; and in the icity it.
self, which missed the violence of the
shower, one dwelling was wrecked. The
stones are said to have fallen continu-
ously for more than aminute.
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In Hartford, say local papers, ''several
prominent physicians have been invcsti-
eating the new French treatment of con-
sumption by the injection of sulphuretted
hydrogen gas. In fact, experiments were
made by DR.. johnson, of this city, some
what earlier than those at the Philadel-
phia Hospital. The experiments have
continued, principally at the free dis
pensary, by Drs. Johnson and Root, the
former having devised an apparatus for
making and administering the gas, from
descriptions given of the French method.
Several patients have been under treat
ment. and with encouraging results.
The physicians above named said that,
while they had every reason to be salts,
fed with the results, they did not feel
like heralding the treatment as a sure
cure. Their patients have been under
treatment only two or three months, and
before speaking positively as to tho
efficacy of the work, treatment should
be continued much longer-perhaps {
year."
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Every year increases the importance
of the cotton production of Mexico, es-
pecially in view of the fact that vast
tracts of land hitherto inaccessible, and
rendered unsafe through the presence Of
hostile Indians, are being opened up to
immigration by the railroad. Atpresent
it is cultivated in only twelve States, and
the amount produced is not sufficient for
home consumption, large quantities being
imported from the United States. One
district, containing about 1900, 900
acres, lying partly in Coahuila and Du-
range, produces perennial cotton plant,
which does not require to be planted
oftener than once in ten years.
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DR.. Oscar Lenz, the eminent scientist,
has lately returned to Europe, after trav-
cling on foot across the African CONT
Lent, through regions literally reeking
with marsh fevers, agues and smallpox.
During the entire journey he enjoyed
perfect and robust health, and On not a
single occasion felt the need of medicine,
remedial or preventive. This immunity
he attributes almost entirely to his cor
rect diet and habits. Raw fruit he es-
chewed. All water used was first boiled.
Not drop of alcoholic liquor passed his
lips. Rice, chicken and tea formed his
staple fare. He avoided bathing in
cold water, exposed himself as little as
possible to the dews and mists of night,
and dressed entirely in flannel.
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Apropos of Mrs. Cleveland's 10

Apropos of Mrs. Cleveland's love
sfairs correspondent tells pretty little
story, not generally known, that her first
love was newspaper man. She is said
to have been deeply interested in him,
but the engagement, which existed fol
a long time, was finally broken off and
never renewed. 1t is said that even now
Mrs. Cleveland has weakness for the
profession, and, in fact, it is generally
accepted that she takes a great deal OF
interest in newspaper men and their work.
She regards with special favor the lady
correspondents attached to the bureaus
of the various papers in Washington,
and in more than one instance she has
made point of conversing with them.
Upon one occasion she went so far as to
gently chide one of the young ladies for
not speaking to her on the street. At
one time she did some literary work
herself.
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NEW YORK'S GREAT BLAZE.
The Largest Fire That Has Oc-
Cured There in Many Years.

The Largest Fire That Has Oc.
Cured There in Many Years.
The greatest fire that has taken place in
New York City for many years broke out at
1:3O o'clock Friday morning in the car stables
of the Belt Line Horse Railroad,
on the west side of Tenth avenue,
between Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth
streets The car stables. with all their
contents, were completely destroyed. Nearly
200 horses perished in the flames. One hun
dred and thirty cars, with large quantity Of
burned up. Only about fifty horses were
saved out of the nearly 1.50O in the stables
The stables occupied the whole front on the
west side of Tenth avenue, and extended down
Fifty-third and Fifty y-fourth streets half way
to Eleventh avenue. The building was three
stories high
The fire was discovered in the cellar in the
extreme western end of the stables and
spread so rapidly that it was impossible to
enter the building to save the horses
The heat set fire to row of frame stables
and dwellings on the south side Of Fifty third
street. and in few moments the whole row
was blazing. Then the flames leaped across
Fifty-fou-th street and set fire to the six
story silk factory of Jacob New, a
new bVilding which extends through to
Fifty-fifth street. A row of flats and tene-
ment houses east of the silk factory next took
fire, and the flames spread so rapidly that the
tenants, rudely awakened from their slum-
bers, were compelled to fly for their lives.
In some cases the fremen were compelled
to tear down the fences in the rear to enable
the tenants to escape, as it was impossible for
them to leave by the front doors, owing tothe
intense heat
The five-story brick tenement on the north
west corner of Fifty fourth street and Tenth
avenue was ablaze from cellar to garnet in a
short time Next the intense heat set fire to a
row of cighttwo and three story frame build
ings on the east side of Tenth avenue, which
were occupied as stores and dwellings. 1t did
not take many minutes for the flames to
sweep through this entire row of buildings
from Fifty-third to Fifty.fourth street, add
ing to the great heat and blaze.
The entire pecuniary loss is estimated at
$700,0O0.'
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-15

A Providence man is issuing some tens
of thousands of fac-similes of the Vicks-
burg daily paper which was issued by
Grants soldiers after the capture of the
city, having already been put in type by
the regular printers. 1t was printed, as
Southern papers were in those days, on
the plain side of wall paper. This would
not be worthy of note but for the fact
that in a quarter of century or less the
people who find these forgeries in their
attics will be claiming that their fathers
were at Vicksburg, and got one of the
only dozen or two copies of the Citizen
which we're printed.
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Clocks, says the New York Times, a,

Clocks, says the New York Times, are
now not only useful but very ornamental,
and so very cheap, too. A very pretty
antique pressed brass mantel clock,
(American make), with q deep-toned
cathedral gong of far-away sound, can
be had for $40. A good-time keeper,
nickcl-plated, costs but 80 cents. The
prices have this wide range, and selec-
tions can be made from varied thousands
Of Office clocks, alarms, cuckoos, halls,
and striking or silent recorders of the
flight of precious hours. Clocks that
tell the state of the weather and are also
calendars; clocks that tinkle the half
hours and chime the full; clocks that
work like watches or swing the faithful
pendulum, and, in fact, clocks of all
kinds, matching all dispositions, are
abundant and cheap, and there seems to
no excuse for even the occupant of an
east side fiat not having one. These
Yankee clocks are appreciated abroad
and below, for the expectations to Eu'
rope, Mexico, and South America mum.
bera thousand day.
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Washington

BEN: PERLEY PooRE, the we'll known
Washington correspondent and writer: of
"reminiscences of public men, died few days
since in the National Capital. He was born
in Newburyport, Mass, in 1920.
The collection of a fund for Mrs Logan
has been completed. The sum collected is
$4,000.
THE various prizes were awarded to the
winners in the National Drill competition, par
ticipated in by soldiers from thirty one
States-on Monday, and the regiments re.
turned to their homes.
A WASHINGTON special says that President
Cleveland will not appoint the late Justice
Woods successor in the United States Su-
preme Court for some time. The new Justice
will most likely be Southern man.
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NATIONAL DRILL.

Prizes Won at Washington by Com.
peting Soldiers.
Thirty-one States were represented by
soldiers at this weeks competition in the Ma
tional Drill at Washington. The prizes were
awarded as follows:
I. Regimental-First Virginia Regiment,
the only competing organization in this class
PriZe-A stand Of colors and medals for the
officers
H. Rattalion-G) Washington Light In
fantry: ~ Louisville, Legion OF Kentucky.
Prizes-s3,0O0 for first, $500 for second.
III. Company-(l) LomaX Rifles, Company
B, 1st Alabama; ~ Company D, lst Mime
sofa: C5l Belknap Rifles, Company B. Sd
Texas; A. National Rifles, Washington, D. c.;
(5) San Antonio Rifles, Texas Prizes-S5, ESQ
to first: S2,5O0 10 second; $500 to third;
81, 900 to fourth. and $500 to fifth. There were
thirty competing companies.
". Cavalry e prizesl-No competitors.
V. Light artillery q prizes)-iD Battery A,
lst Regiment Indiana Artillery Tor Indianapo-
lis Light Artillery: e; lst Light Battery Of
Wisconsin TOR Milwaukee Light Battery.
Prizes-sl. 5000 for first: 81, 600 for second.
VI. Machine Gun e prizesl-Ql Battery A,
Ohio Tor Cincinnati Battery):t2 ~ Battery A,
Louisville Legion. Prizes-Silver trophy
and $3.50 to fiji st and 500 to second
VII Zouaves z prizes)-D Chicago
zouaves: C2l Memphis Merchants Zouaves.
Prizes-$l 600 for first and $50 for second.
VIII. Cadet Corps Il prizes)-Michigan
Military Academy Cadets; u Maryland Ag-
ricultural College Cadets. Prizes-S1,OO 600 to
first and $50 to second.
The individual prises were awarded as fol-
lows: J. Private H. G. Stack, San Antonio
Rifles, 800; .. First Sergeant Charles F.
Conrad. Company B. Washington Light IN
Company A. Louisville Legion. .
In addition to the list Of prizes announced
to be awarded by the Board of Judges. the
Executive Committee bestowed upon the
first Light Battery of Wisconsin gold medal
for proficiency in sabre drill, and silver
medal to the Louisville Legion Drum Corps
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

CHIARA CIGNARALE, charged with killing
her husband, was found guilty of murder in
the first degree by Il New York jury. The
penalty is death OH the gallows.
FIFTEEN destitute Arabian families were
among the immigrants landed recently in
New York They have been sent back to
their native country.
THE pecuniary losses sustained by the de-
struction of the Belt Line Railroad car stables
and adjacent property in New York will ag-
gregate nearly $1O0,OO0. The number of
horses burned to death was reduced by later
reports to 1.1S5.
Day parade in New York. The day was
everywhere observed with appropriate cere-
monies, in which floral offerings were con-
spicuous
THE knights of Labor have won in their
lorg fight with the Philadelphia Clothing Ex-
change.
PALMER's large cooperage works in Brook
lyn have been partly burned. One building
contained 81, ,OOO barrels ready for use. The
loss is $3.50, 900. A watchman was killed and
fireman badly injured. Townsend john
son, former employe, admitted having set
fire to the works.
Two young men and young lady were
drowned by the overturning of their rowboat
in the Mohawk River at Utica, n. Y.
AT dinner given in honor of Editor
O'Erien, the Irish agitator, in Boston, Con-
gresham Collins presided. Mayor OBrien,
the editors of the leading daily papers, forty
Catholic priests number OF Protestant
clergymen, General B. F. Butler. United
States Senator Sabin, of Minnesota, and
other noted people were present
THE Vedder Liquor Tax bill, passed by the
New Yorl, Legislature, has been vetoed by
Governor Hill.
JOHN w. DAVIS, the first Democratic Gov
ernor of Rhode Island in many years, was in
augurated at Newport.
PROFESSOR CHARLES SIEDHoF, ninety-one
years old, and his wife, one year older, COM
mtted suicide together in their room in Union
Hill. n. j., in preference to going to the
poorhouse.
A DISTINCT earthquake shock was felt at
Jamestown n. Y. 1t sounded like an under
ground explosion, and many inhabitants ran
out of their houses in great alarm.
COKE strikers made an attempt to blow up
a coal shaft at Davidson, Penn, with dyna-
mite while four men were at work. The
dynamite was thrown down the shaft and ex-
ploded without injuring the men. The work
men quickly ran from the mine and were
then fired upon by four men. More than a
a dozen shots were fired, but none of them
took effect.
A NEW silk mill to cost $500, 900, and to en-
ploy from 600 to 1000 hands, is to he estab.
liShed at Pottsville, Penn.
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There is strange and weird fascina-
ton about stories of living burial. One
of the most gruesome of these which we
have seen for some time is sent by an
Odessa correspondent. Major Majuroff,
aide-de-camp to the Major OF
Odessa, was believed to have died sud-
denly three weeks since. He was buried
with all military honors forty hours after
his supposed death. But after he had
been fortnight in the grave, "while the
family vault in the metropolis was being
renovated for the Russian Fete DIES Morts,
the coffin lid was noticed to have been
partly forced open. 1t was Immediately
removed, and the body was found face
downward. The face was dreadfully
lacerated, and flesh gnawed from the
hands. The corpse was still bleeding,
which confirms the statement of work
man that his attention was first attracted
by noise in the coffin, and the unfortu-
nate Major died only on the instant of
the appalling discovery" The idea of
the "corpse" reviving after burial, pro
longed existence for fourteen days by
eating the flesh off its own hands, and
then dying just as the lid was opened, is
as terrible as anything Edgar Allen Poe
ever conceived.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-15

The Grant relics, which have been for
several months safely guarded in one of
the private rooms Of the National Mu-
scum, in Washi ngton, are now on public
exhibition. Recently two handsome
pushed lined cases, filled with articles
from the collection, were placed in the
north hall of the musem, near the main
entrance. They contained the prcsenta.
tion swords, gold headed cane, caskets,
medallions and many other costly and
elegant articles presented by different
people at different times to General Grant.
Many of these articles are souvenirs OF
his trip around the world. There is a
splendid collection of japanese coins,
one series OF seven pieces, old japanese
gold coins of huge size, being valued
at $1,000. There are also invitation
cards, menu cards, and reminders of en-
tertainments given in his honor, cngrossed
on gold plates. One invitation card to 6
masked ball, given at San Francisco upon
General Grants arrival at that city, or
his return from his famous tour, is en-
eraved on solid gold, and was incloset
in silver envelope, with the address en-
graved upon it. In the right hand corne.
is two cent stamp, and in the left thu
usual: sIf not delivered in ten days re
turn to-" etc. The articles shown, be
sides their historical interest, are of great
intrinsic valve.
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A Chicago man paid $50 few weeks
ago for a new and improved incubator
machine. He placed therein $25 worth
of high-priced eggs and hired boy to
attend it at further expense of $25.
The time having fully expired, he went
the other day to inspect the incubator
and see how many of the eggs had
hatched. The only living thing he found
was a large bluebottle fly, which he
caught and put in bottle. He exhibits
this insect to inquiring friends as the
only 5000 fly in the United States.
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Mr.. Colman, United States Commis-
sioner of Agriculture, speaks hopefully
of the new method of obtaining sugar
from sugar-cane by diffusion. On return
ing from a recent trip to Louisiana to in
vestigate the operation he is convinced
that the process will prove successful.
Cane which under ordinary circumstances
and methods will yield eighty pounds of
sugar to the ton yields 140 pounds under
this process.
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South and West.

THERE is hot Prohibition fight in Texas
and Dakota.
AT the Virginia county and town elections
Asbury (colored) was elected Common
wealth's Attorney for Norfolk County. This
is said to be the first time in the history of
the State wherea colored man has been elect
ed to this Office.
THE bursting of the boiler in cotton
factory at Nat@hez, Miss. killed four persons
and injured a number of Others.
THE recent forest fires in Michigan caused
total estimated loss of sT,OO0,ODO and eight
human lives
GAUDAUR beat Hanlon in the three-mile
rowing match at Chicago.
A HORSE attached to carriage ran away
in Kansas City, and the vehicle was smashed
into splinters by colliding with freight car.
Mrs. Eleanor Randall was instantly killed,
and Mrs. Charles French and her daughter
Emily were fatally injured.
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Buffalo Bills Wild West show in Lon
don has occasioncd an extensive republi-
cation of Fenimore Cooper's Indian novels
over the water. 'It seems as if every
body who has paid visit to the wild
West at Earl's Court, must forthwith
form an acquaintance with The Last Of
the Mohicans,' Leather Stocking and
The Pathfinder" says an English
ionrna1